This is Dong'a County, which is famous for the production of the precious medicine Colla Corii Asini, and was loved by Cao Zhi, who was the king of the Three Kingdoms era, a literary genius of Jian'an and a poetic soul of a generation. Dong'a County is located in the northwestern region of Lu, is a population of only 420,000 people, an area of 800 square kilometers of small counties. Although the county is not big, but has a long history, splendid culture, country style, folklore to the pure good. More than that, a large area of land is the Yellow River alluvial plain, fertile soil, rich in produce, of course, there are also part of the sand and alkali thin soil. In recent years, the party and government leaders in this county, in adhering to the "people-oriented", the noble concept of scientific development and the grand goal of building a harmonious society, to promote the overall development of social and economic progress, at the same time, attaches great importance to the development of forestry, embarked on an ecological county of the scientific development of the road, for a variety of birds, especially magpies living For various birds, especially magpies to live and flourish, creating an extremely favorable ecological environment and a good home. Through the use of various media, they vigorously publicize the great significance of afforestation, bird-loving and bird-protecting, and through the establishment and adoption of modernization, legalization and formalization of the scientific management mode, in the whole county, soon formed a top and bottom of the heart, every household, village and cottage planting, afforestation, men and women, old and young, everyone loves and protects birds, and the construction of artificial magpie nests of the craze, presenting a person and nature live in harmony, People and birds as a good social trend. According to the County Forestry Bureau's information shows that, as of now, the county's 1.2 million mu of land, has reached 46% of the area covered with timber forests and fruit tree forests on the green shade, about more than 100,000 magpies on the branches of the good news, descending to create happiness, landscaping, climate regulation, for the production of pollution-free forest agricultural products, marketing, to create a piece of green heaven and earth, opened up a golden thoroughfare, and greatly increased the farmers' economic input. Because of this, it won the high appreciation of the National Wildlife Conservation Association, and on October 30, 2005, Dong'a County was officially named the "Hometown of Chinese Magpies".
Magpies, is a kind of bird, because it is in the legend, happy to annunciate the good news, build bridges, to fulfill the beauty of the world, so, it will be called magpie, magpie, celebratory bird, auspicious bird. Throughout the ages, people have been very fond of the magpie, a spiritual creature made in heaven, and love it for its gentle and beautiful looks, and the black and white clothes it wears, shining with a purple luster; love it for its soft and flexible wings, and light and graceful flying silhouette; love it for its love and hatred, and to eliminate evil and promote goodness, and to act as a forest guardian's character and ability. Character and skills, and its light legs jumping dance ......, but people love it more, in its body for thousands of years carried by the cultural color and charm, and its good social effect on earth and spiritual power. Longing for beauty, yearning for happiness, thirst for love, is the common sense and nature of man, people's hearts in the sky, need a brilliant dawn illumination, people's emotional world, need a beautiful sunrise lit, and magpies, the love of the earth, caring for the earth, care of justice, willing to be a man of beauty, help people angel, embodies a noble spiritual style, manifested a kind of holy moral character, which is the magpie! This is the essence of magpie culture and its precious value. Magpies have been famous all over the world since the seventh day of the seventh month in ancient times, when they bridged the Milky Way to fulfill the meeting of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden, the lovers of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden. Happened to them in a string of beautiful legends, popular, passed down from generation to generation, for generations of writers and writers of the object of chanting.
I and several poets, in the past two years, have been invited twice into the magpie township of Dong'a County, one in April 2006, attended the "China Magpie Township" ceremony held here, and the first "magpie culture" academic seminar; the second is in June 2007, the first "magpie culture" academic seminar; the second is in June 2007, the first "magpie culture" academic seminar; the second is in June 2007, the first "magpie culture" academic seminar. Secondly, in June 2007, Du Jili, the director of Dong'a County Forestry Bureau, and other comrades led us to take a car like a boat, along the Yellow River for dozens of miles of long embankment, in the depths of the green sea of swaying willows, to tour and visit a large area of forested landscapes, and to participate in a small symposium held by them, to discuss the articles written by their organization to promote magpie culture as the main line of the development of the harmony of forests and birds, the "Nine Chapters of Dong'a". The draft of "Nine Chapters of Dong'a" was discussed. Through the two visits to the magpie township and the above activities, we have gained a better understanding of the history and current situation of the development of forest birds here, and have gained more knowledge from the perspective of the biology of birds and the promotion of magpie culture. Here, we can say that we have had enough of "green trees covering the beach, green grass covering the embankment, fragrant flowers inserted all over the roadside, fruit trees planted all over the countryside", many trees and birds, trees into forests, birds into flocks of eyes and ears. The county has more than 160 kinds of wild birds to land here or settle down, which is the most eye-catching is about 100,000 magpies, hunting, hunting, nesting and reproduction here, everywhere is a faction of the aura is always present, angry, people and magpies for the beautiful landscape, love birds, bird care has become the people's honorable fashion and social responsibility.
Dong'a County's forests are full of birds, becoming a striking highlight of the vast rural areas of China, and the honor of "China's magpie hometown" is well deserved, and is to be congratulated! What is more admirable is that they are taking this as an opportunity to further promote the magpie culture, so that it can become a spiritual impetus for the development of various undertakings and the process of social civilization. Magpie culture, deep meaning, rich in connotation, is an important part of Chinese culture. They have established the "Dong'a County Magpie Culture Association", intend to set up the "China Magpie Website", hold the "Magpie Culture Poetry Picking" activity, build the Magpie Culture Square, Magpie Culture Exhibition Hall, build the Magpie Bridge, etc. The Magpie Culture Association has been established in Dong'a County. These good planning and vision, if once realized, will become a road to promote the magpie culture of the bright landscape, will attract the eight winds, the four seas, for the construction of a better new Dong'a, make due contribution!